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Anna camp, Cong exchange fresh salvos over Lokpal powers
New Delhi, June 13
With barely a month to go for the monsoon session when the government has promised to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill, the two main players in the joint drafting committee - Team Anna and the Congress - today engaged in a fresh slanging match, making the fate of the contentious Bill even more uncertain.

Editorial: A bridge too far

Maruti talks fail, strike to spread
Gurgaon, June 13
Tripartite talks between the Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) management, workers and Haryana Government functionaries failed here today with both parties sticking to their stance. The strike is likely to continue and even spread to other units in view of tomorrow’s tool-down strike call given by several labour unions.

Dalit protesters clash with police in Mirchpur
Hisar, June 13
The police today resorted to a lathi charge to disperse a mob of villagers protesting at the Mini Secretariat here. The protesters belonged to Dubeta, Bithmada and Alipur villages near here. They were protesting against three incidents in these villages involving non-Jat villagers.

Badal’s Rs 1,100-cr shocker for BJP in pre-poll year
Chandigarh, June 13
The Punjab BJP, already in turmoil following the sacking of three ministers, is set to suffer another jolt with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal stating at a meeting of the joint SAD-BJP Legislature Party today that the proposed Rs 1,100-crore municipal infrastructure development fund may not come about.

Jaya wants Karuna, Kani removed from textbooks
Moves SC, says syllabus finalised by DMK govt would politicise young minds
New Delhi, June 13
Within a month of becoming Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for the third time, AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa has come to the Supreme Court seeking to prevent the introduction of a school syllabus finalised by the previous DMK government.

China dams worry Delhi
India asks its Beijing mission for details of Brahmaputra ‘diversion’
New Delhi, June 13
China’s reported plan to divert the Brahmaputra from its upper reaches has raised the heckles of the Indian establishment which has sought details about the project from its embassy in Beijing.

This fasting Baba died away from the spotlight
Haridwar, June 13
While yoga guru Ramdev hogged the media limelight as religious leaders and political dignitaries made a beeline for the Himalayan Hospital at Jollygrant near Rishikesh to offer him juice to end his fast on Sunday, in another room in the same hospital lay another saint, Swami Nigmanand.

Swami Nigmanand in a hospital in Haridwar on April 27, prior to his being shifted to Dehradun. File photo

The Last Word Oommen Chandy The Marathon Man Getting elected for the 10th consecutive term shows his grass-roots appeal, but leading the ruling coalition with a wafer-thin majority is a challenge. Will he deliver? ALL politicians are said to be people persons, but then the new Kerala Chief Minister is different, he is accessible even when he occupies the top position in the state.